Jeffrey Toobin: Patty Hearst Wasn’t Brainwashed | CONAN on TBS

Jeffrey draws a connection between Patty joining the SLA and kids being radicalized by ISIS.

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Jeffrey Toobin: Patty Hearst Wasn’t Brainwashed | CONAN on TBS

[tashakomaroff]

Patty Hearst was kidnapped and ''thrown in a closet ... the size of a closet.'' Anybody see Drunk History's take on the Hearst kidnapping (it's on Comedy Central).

[loneranger]

At least Toobin kept his pants on for this interview.

[banquo]

Glad to see most these comment's are dunking on Toobin and standing up for PH

[kemolowlow]

Jeffrey Toobin just said Zoom brainwashed him.

[nanceenurse]

Jeffrey Toobin is trying to sell a book. He is profiting from her story. When she got out and got de- programmed, she married, had children and lived a "normal" life, which is testament to her character more than anything else. Before she was kidnapped, she was never radical and lived mostly a "normal" life, too. I believe she had Stockholm syndrome from the extreme stress she underwent in her initial days w/ the SLA.

[josephbarclayross]

Bunch of Bullshit -- would she have done any of this if she hadn't been kidnapped and brutalized by a government informant Donald DeFreeze? Toobin is a fool or a government shill himself, or both.

[Scion]

Blah-blah. He wasn't there, he isn't inside her head, he's just flapping those flabby gums.

[pdexpat]

This seems to have reappeared in the algorithm after Toobin was in the news for ... other reasons ... and all I can say is, this show should be ashamed of yourselves for giving this man a platform to profit off someone else's trauma.

[gsopoagmle]

Conan needs to call a cleaning service to clean the chair and everything Jeffrey has touched.

[TheStuport]

Funny how Patty Hearst....WHO actually went through all these experiences....might possibly have a whole different concept of those situations rather than some guy who is "guesstimating" and at best just throwing out his own interpretations and opinions. This clown is all about stirring the pot and somehow collecting a paycheck as job if you can get it.

[joseh]

Jeffy got caught playing his little instrument, but wasn't at Zoom band practice.

[drstrangelove]

Read Patty’s book, it explains everything. She had to convince her captors that she was with them, otherwise if they had even a small feeling that she was lying to them, they would’ve killed her.

[NinRoseF]

If anyone wants the answers to the big mysteries I recommend reading the book by Patty Hearst herself, "Patty Hearst her own story." I was appalled to see that Toobin interviewed her criminal kidnapper and abuser for the sake of his book. He glorified a lunatic and romanticized the victimization of a young girl. Now that I see who Toobin is I am not so surprised, I've seen him sink low many times. She was treated so inhumanely she's lucky she even survived. She had a will to live and surviving was all that was on her mind then. She has told her story and it's disgusting that Toobin would try to rewrite it. He has no moral obligation to anyone, just him and the dollar.

[jetmaximum]

I cant wait for Toobins new cookbook TOOBIN'S SPECIAL SAUCE.

[GraveTender]

the Hearst Family being middle class. thats funny Conan

[dementednun]

Love how people dedicate there life to writing ✍ books and spreading gossip on others

[nasrinjabarkhyl]

I had to read ur book "the nine" for my AP gov class and it ruined my summer I don't appreciate how long it was

[denisenoe]

Patty Hearst was kidnapped and kept in a closet for 2 weeks. She was told she could be killed at any time. First Willie Wolfe (Cujo), then Donald DeFreeze (Cinque), raped her in that closet. I agree with PH: "It's insulting to anyone who has ever been raped to suggest a rape could turn into a seduction and a romance." In romance novels, women fall in love with their rapists. In real life, they become so terrified they can no longer think straight. This reminds me of Ariel Castro's shocking claims, "I just held them there without their being able to leave. I wasn't forceful on them. Most of the sex was consensual. There was a lot of harmony in that house. Sometimes they would even ask me for sex, many times." I don't believe Castro and I don't believe this guy.

[Allaluca]

Still sounded like brainwashing to me lol

[stofthegangtodie]

drunk history Comedy Central brought me here